Numerous organizations and names were invoked as I interviewed artists, participants and programmers for Dancing Our Stories. The Resources section begins to capture this breadth of Canadian and international activity, linking the reader to an assortment of creators and companies, as well as institutions that fund or advance dance animation activity. The section is not by any means complete and the reader is invited to contribute insights, fresh news, and further contacts to the Dance Animation Forum hosted at the Society for Canadian Dance Studies (see below). The dance animation movement is well established in the United Kingdom; I have added selected contacts to help readers access this network for insights, best practices, and opportunities for professional development. PRESENTERS The CanDance Network
The CanDance Network is an association of 29 specialized dance presenting organizations across Canada that serves dance presenters' needs, and supports their work with the dance community and its marketplace. Through presentations, residencies and outreach, the Network helps to develop a growing audience for contemporary work.
www.candance.ca National Performance Network
NPN's partnership of 55 art organizations across the U.S. supports established and emerging artists in dance and other performing arts. NPN connects artists with communities - helping artists make work in their own neighborhoods, and crossing geographic and cultural divides to increase the traffic of fresh, challenging artistic work.
www.npnweb.org TOP of PAGE DANCE COMPANIES/SCHOOLS Atlas Moves Watching
Working with artists from a variety of backgrounds, Artistic Director Bill James aims to build a new relationship between audience and art through dance performances in unconventional settings. His work offers new and exciting perspectives to experience dance, through creation projects, choreographic labs, and inventive community arts projects.
www.atlasmoveswatching.com Dance Immersion
Under the artistic direction of Vivine Scarlett, dance Immersion aims to promote, cultivate and preserve dance of the African Diaspora, expose these forms to the public through presentations and workshops, and educate the wider community to the meaning and significance of dance and the arts as a whole.
www.danceimmersion.ca Fortier Danse-Création
The company supports the creation and performance of choreography by its Artistic Director, Paul-André Fortier. Furthermore it aims to nurture a new generation of talented dancers, focusing on skills to make strong connections, promote engagement and dialogue with the public.
www.fortier-danse.com Joe Ink
This award-winning company is led by its Artistic Director and choreographer, Joe Laughlin, and presents original, accessible works of dance and music as well as innovative, participatory, movement workshops for all ages.
www.joeink.ca Judith Marcuse Projects
With a commitment to artistic excellence and social relevance, Judith Marcuse Projects (formerly DanceArts Vancouver) has a 25-year history of community cultural development using dance, theatre, music, video, film and the visual arts in the creation of performances and touring; video, film and television; workshops and animation events.
www.judithmarcuseprojects.ca Kaeja d'Dance-EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
EXPRESS DANCE RESOURCE BOOK
Educators' Resource for Teaching Dance
Co-Authors: Allen Kaeja, Karen Kaeja, Carol Oriold Developed by Karen and Allen Kaeja, EXPRESS DANCE is an innovative solution to meet the challenges of the arts curriculum requirements in the education system. Teachers with no background or training in dance can use this approach. Designed for students in grades 4 to 12, EXPRESS DANCE offers a safe, creative and physically invigorating program of movement classes. Students invent movement phrases and combine them to form a dance. Written by teachers for teachers, EXPRESS DANCE is a practical solution, with lesson plans designed for all levels, from novice to experienced teacher. To order a copy, see: www.kaeja.org/education.html MainDance
A major part of MainDance's three-year Professional Training Program consists of training students in teaching, public speaking and community programming through workshops, lectures and hands-on practice in the broader community.
www.maindance.ca National Ballet of Canada-EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
CLASSROOM RESOURCES
www.national.ballet.ca/EducationAndOutreach/classroomResources.php STUDENT MATINEE STUDY GUIDES
There are many opportunities to integrate ballet or dance into classroom studies. These concise guides are designed to help teachers prepare their students for a meaningful ballet experience and to incorporate ballet into the curriculum. All activities meet curriculum expectations. Available on request: svanderlinde@national.ballet.ca
www.national.ballet.ca Sampradaya Dance Creations-EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
BENEATH THE BANYAN TREE Study Guide
The Banyan Tree Project is an arts and community development project comprising school and community workshops and classes in dance, music, and folk arts; youth leadership and volunteer development; and a dance theatre work for family audiences, Beneath the Banyan Tree. The banyan tree is a metaphor for the 'ideal' community-based society. It is a meeting place, where a labyrinthine system of roots and branches provides the support, shade and environment for a healthy exchange and regeneration of values, stories, mythologies and traditions. The Banyan Tree Project is designed to strengthen the Company's commitment to creating a supportive, interactive and creative environment for stories to be told and shared. The study guide for Beneath the Banyan Tree is available to those teachers whose students are participating in a workshop or coming to see a performance of Beneath the Banyan Tree. Teachers Teachers should contact the company administrator info@sampradaya-dance.com for an electronic copy of the study guide.
www.sampradaya-dance.com Studio Danse Nyata Nyata
Zab Maboungou founded Le cercle d'expression artistique Nyata Nyata in 1986 to explore and develop the particular aesthetics of African dance as it relates to music, poetry, mythology, ritual and the related arts, linking the ancestral with the contemporary. This process includes choreographic creation, dance performance, musical composition, writings, conferences, the teaching and promotion thereof in a local, national and international context.
www.nyata-nyata.org University of Calgary Dance Program
The B.A. Dance Program at the University of Calgary is a four-year undergraduate degree with a major in Dance. Created in 1996, the Program is a collaboration between the Faculties of Fine Arts and Kinesiology.
www.ucdance.com TOP of PAGE INDEPENDENT DANCE ARTISTS Saille Abbott
LifeMoves: Expressive Movement Arts
dancinganimalwoman@yahoo.com Terrill Maguire
171 Hammersmith Ave.,Toronto, ON, M4E 2W7
(416) 691-2954
terrill@yorku.ca Helen Walkley
(604) 877-7712
hwalkley@sfu.ca TOP of PAGE OTHER AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS The Dance Current
This Toronto-based publication, and its associated webpage, offers news, reviews, forums and opportunities for the Canadian dance community. Feature articles are in English with summaries in French. On-line forums include Dance Education, moderated by Ann Kipling Brown, Dance Animation, moderated by Doug Durand, and Transitions: Student to Professional, moderated by Kate Franklin.
www.thedancecurrent.com Animarts
This website presents both a summary and full report, The Art of the Animateur, documenting the findings of a year-long (2003) program of research, examining the skills and insights required of artists to work effectively in schools and community settings, as well as exploring the wider implications for training and professional development.
www.animarts.org.uk Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange is a professional company of dance artists that creates, performs, teaches, and engages people in making art. Since its start in 1976, and in each encounter, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange asks four questions: Who gets to dance? Where is the dance happening? What is it about? Why does it matter? Her acclaimed "Critical Response Process" is available in book form.
www.danceexchange.org The Banff Centre for Continuing Education
The Banff Centre, situated in Canada's Rocky Mountains, has a 70-year history of support to artistic production and critical debate in the arts. It supports creative residencies, including creative work with communities: recently, Liz Lerman worked with Calgary-based Eko Dance at the Banff Centre toward the creation of a new community-engaged work.
www.banffcentre.ca Association of National Dance Agencies
ANDA brings together England's nine National Dance Agencies, developing a vibrant and diverse range of dance activities through an exchange of information and networking that contribute to a national debate on dance. Center for the Study of Art and Community
CSA&C is an association of creative leaders from business, government and the arts working to build bridges between the arts and a wide range of community, public and private sector interests, taking the power of the creative process and making it a vital and accepted part of all aspects of school and community life.
www.artandcommunity.com Centre for Creative Communities
CCC is a UK-based independent think tank with extensive national and international experience and expertise in the role of arts in education and in community building. The organization regularly publishes a newsletter and its website provides details and case studies of various community arts projects conducted in the UK and from around the world.
www.creativecommunities.org.uk Common Weal Community Arts
Commonweal Community Arts in Regina, Saskatchewan works for positive social change and community development through the arts. It promotes participation in the arts as part of developing healthier communities and values artistic creation which probes, provokes, celebrates community history and contemporary life.
www.commonweal-arts.com Community Arts Network
CAN was initiated in 1999 to promote information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts practice - art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of place, spirit or tradition. Its monthly newsletter, API News, is available on the website.
www.communityarts.net Community Arts Network of Vancouver
Developed by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, this site gives a number of perspectives on community-based arts practice, a guide to building projects, directories, and resources for community arts projects.
www.creativecommunities.ca DanceOntario
DANCEONtario promotes and supports the advancement of all forms of dance in Ontario. One of its many programs is Dance Animation Ontario, a presenter animation project funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation to take workshops and performances to alternative and established presenters across Ontario - 2004/2006.
www.danceontario.ca Dance Umbrella of Ontario
DUO supports Ontario's independent dance artists and small-scale dance companies with a broad range of resources to assist in the creation and dissemination of dance as well as advocating on behalf of the dance sector.
www.danceumbrella.net Foundation for Community Dance
The Foundation for Community Dance is the United Kingdom's national development agency for community dance. It works for the development of community dance and for greater access to high quality community dance for all.
www.communitydance.org.uk Regroupement québécois de la danse
The Regroupement québécois de la danse is the major dance service organization in Quebec. A leader in the field of dance animation, it piloted La danse sur les routes du Québec, an intitative to put dance on the road. Its quarterly magazine, Le Cahier des routes, profiles dance development professionals at performing arts venues and features stories of dance animation programs and activities.
www.quebecdanse.org Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Located in the centre of one of North America's densest and most diverse urban communities, the Roundhouse's mission is to celebrate diversity - of people, values, ideas and activities through programs that integrate the arts, community culture and sports.
www.roundhouse.ca The Dance Centre
Besides managing the operations of the Scotiabank Dance Centre in Vancouver, the Dance Centre is the primary information and resource centre for dance in British Columbia. It offers a wide range of services to dance professionals, including artist-in-residence programs, choreographic labs, and animation activities for the public.
www.thedancecentre.ca The Society for Disability Arts and Culture
The Society for Disability Arts and Culture presents and produces works by artists with disabilities and promotes artistic excellence among artists with disabilities working in a variety of disciplines.
www.s4dac.org TOP of PAGE FUNDING RESOURCES Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts offers a broad range of grants and services to professional Canadian artists and arts organizations, and promotes public awareness of the arts through its communications, research and arts advocacy activities.
www.canadacouncil.ca The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation
This Foundation will support professional theatre, dance, and music organizations in Toronto for a three year period, as they undertake strategic initiatives intended to enhance their development and vitality. Strategic initiatives, professional development, internships and animation projects have received support through the foundation.
www.metcalffoundation.com The Ontario Trillium Foundation
The Ontario Trillium Foundation receives $100 million annually, generated through Ontario's charity casino initiative, and awards grants to fund capital, operating and/or specific project costs in support of: Arts & Culture, Environment, Human & Social Services, and Sports & Recreation.
www.trilliumfoundation.org Vancouver Foundation
Vancouver Foundation is a philanthropic non-governmental community foundation which operates primarily as a permanent collection of endowed funds. Income derived from the investment of the pooled capital of Vancouver Foundation's endowments is distributed to support the activities of charitable organizations across British Columbia.
www.vancouverfoundation.bc.ca TOP of PAGE RESEARCH Arts Research Digest
Arts Research Digest provides a unique overview of recent and current research in the arts, media and cultural sectors of the United Kingdom, Europe, Australasia and North America.
www.arts-research-digest.com Comedia
Much of Comedia's research and development work has been concerned with questions of how we understand and express the value of the arts, as well as the social impact of the arts beyond economics.
www.comedia.org.uk National Foundation for Educational Research
The NFER has been at the forefront of independent educational research and development in the UK for over 55 years. The Foundation maintains a diversified portfolio of research, information and development activities, including recent research on the educational programs of dance companies and arts practice in UK elementary schools.
www.nfer.ac.uk The Society for Canadian Dance Studies The Society for Canadian Dance Studies is a support and advocacy group for anyone who studies or works in the field of Canadian dance studies. The Society encourages and promotes research and writing in Canadian dance studies, and provides a forum for dance researchers to discuss their work with each other.
www.people.uleth.ca/~scds.secd TOP of PAGE 
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